How can I find where I will be redirected using cURL?

Question

I\'m trying to make curl follow a redirect but I can\'t quite get it to work right. I have a string that I want to send as a GET param to a server and get the resulting URL.

Answer 1

Lot's of regex here, despite the fact i really like them this way might be more stable to me:

$resultCurl=curl_exec($curl); //get curl result
//Optional line if you want to store the http status code
$headerHttpCode=curl_getinfo($curl,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

//let's use dom and xpath
$dom = new \DOMDocument();
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$dom->loadHTML($resultCurl, LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD);
libxml_use_internal_errors(false);
$xpath = new \DOMXPath($dom);
$head=$xpath->query("/html/body/p/a/@href");

$newUrl=$head[0]->nodeValue;

The location part is a link in the HTML sent by apache. So Xpath is perfect to recover it.